Microsoft’s Stunning Acquisition Of Activision Blizzard
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🗓️ 20 January 2022
⏱️ 121 minutes
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Welcome back to The MinnMax Show podcast! We have a big episode for you this week, as Ben Hanson, Jeff Marchiafava, Kyle Hilliard, and Janet Garcia unpack the news that Microsoft has acquired Activision Blizzard and rave about the new action RPG Nobody Saves the World. Then we're joined by the co-director of the Video Game History Foundation Kelsey Lewin to talk about RPGs on the GameBoy Advance like Mother 3 and Tomato Adventure. Then Sarah Podzorski jumps on to help us answer community questions submitted on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax
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00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:41 - Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard!!!
00:31:16 - Nobody Saves the World
00:48:03 - Mother 3
01:02:59 - Tomato Adventure
01:14:37 - Thanking MinnMax's biggest supporters
01:18:29 - Community questions
01:50:18 - Get A Load Of This
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Midmax Show, a place about games, friends, and getting |
| 0:23.6 | better. |
| 0:24.6 | I'm Ben Hansen, and I want to thank you all for being here. |
| 0:27.2 | I'm joined by Jeff Markey of Fava. |
| 0:29.9 | Hello. |
| 0:30.9 | I'm joined by Janet Garcia. |
| 0:32.3 | Hello. |
| 0:33.3 | I just realized introducing people on a podcast is an inherently weird thing to do. |
| 0:37.8 | They just say hello. |
| 0:39.1 | And then Kyle Hildjard, hey, what's up? |
| 0:42.1 | Hey, I got a new hoodie on YouTube. |
| 0:44.8 | Proud. |
| 0:45.8 | Cool, man. |
| 0:46.8 | Yeah, if you're listening to this on your favorite podcast app, you can always check |
| 0:49.0 | us out on YouTube or vice versa. |
| 0:52.1 | This is a big show. |
| 0:54.2 | This is the type of show that I have to strap myself into my chair for because this is |
| 0:58.3 | a juggernaut. |
| 0:59.3 | We are talking about the big news of the week, Microsoft has purchased Activision Blizzard. |
| 1:06.2 | We are going to try to wrap our minds around that one. |
| 1:08.6 | Jeff, I'm counting on you to be super smart when talking about that, please. |
| 1:12.6 | No. |
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